Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., a long time supporter for extensive migration reform and critic of the Trump administration, is retiring from Congress, Fox News validates.

Gutierrez held an occasion in Chicago on Monday together with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and is slated to hold a press conference in Chicago on Tuesday early morning.

The 63-year-old congressman has actually served his Chicago district considering that 1993 and is a senior member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. A Puerto Rican, he has actually been a lead advocate in current weeks of offering federal help to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico. He likewise has actually been jailed this year outside Trump Tower in New York objecting the president’s stringent migration enforcement policy.

But Gutierrez likewise was amongst the harshest critics of previous President Barack Obama, whom he called the “deporter in chief” for purchasing migration firms to deport numerous countless undocumented immigrants. He highly disagreed with Obama’s – and his then-chief of personnel Emanuel’s choice – to utilize the early years of his presidency to promote health-care reform rather of a migration overhaul.

Before the Thanksgiving recess, Gutierrez informed The Washington Post that he was preparing to submit the approximately 800 signatures he had to gather in order to run for re-election.

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“I’m submitting my documents, and I’m doing it once again,” he stated at the time.

But he has actually independently hinted to coworkers for the previous a number of years that he wished to retire. Previously this year, he indicated that he felt comfy doing so now that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has more than 30 members, consisting of a number of more youthful, more enthusiastic associates in safe districts who are most likely to be in Congress for numerous years to come.